Only the massive Ancient Demon corpse remained on the ground.

Fang Hong immediately summoned his demon gourd and absorbed the Ancient Demon’s corpse.

"Poof."

After a few breaths, a red light shone from the gourd’s mouth, and then a thumb-sized, crimson Immortal Pill shot out.

This Immortal Pill glowed brightly, emitting an incredibly rich and pure Immortal Qi.

This was indeed an Immortal King-level Immortal Pill.

A satisfied smile appeared on Fang Hong’s face as he reached out, caught the Immortal Pill, and stored it safely within his years pearl space.

This Immortal King-level Immortal Pill had arrived at just the right time; it could be used to aid him in breaking through to the Immortal King Realm.

After dealing with the Ancient Demon corpse, Fang Hong’s gaze began to sweep around.

This place was once the location of an ancient sect, though it had now become a ruin.

Had those ancient Cultivators left behind any treasures or inheritance?

Thinking of this, Fang Hong began to investigate this lost ancient sect.

Whether it was the ruined town or the surrounding mountains and forests, Fang Hong meticulously searched every inch with his Divine Sense.

Two days later, Fang Hong had already left the ancient Cultivator ruins.

These ruins had been dormant for an unknown number of years, and Fang Hong did indeed find many Immortal Caves left behind by ancient Cultivators within them.

It was a pity that time was merciless; all sorts of artifacts in the Immortal Caves had long since decayed and weathered away over the long years.

Only a pile of useless remnants remained, with only a few tenacious immortal herbs still quietly growing in the mountain forests deep within the ruins.

Fortunately, Fang Hong’s core objective for this trip was not in vain.

Among these surviving immortal herbs, he had coincidentally gathered all the medicinal ingredients required to refine the soul solidifying pill.

As long as he could successfully refine the soul solidifying pill, combined with Immortal Artifacts and Immortal Arts, Fang Hong could easily cope with the Heavenly Fire Tribulation.

To prepare for his advancement with peace of mind, Fang Hong spent a day meticulously searching the peripheral areas of the Ancient Demon Continent and finally found a secluded small valley.

The valley was surrounded by mountains, with lush vegetation; although the Immortal Qi wasn’t top-tier, it was sufficient.

Moreover, there were no Demonic Beasts around, nor would any Cultivators come here for experience.

Fang Hong immediately carved out a temporary secluded Immortal Cave deep within the valley.

He also set up several layers of concealment and defensive restrictions around the Immortal Cave to prevent any sudden disturbances from Demonic Beasts or Cultivators.

After completing all protective measures, Fang Hong did not delay and immediately entered the internal space of the years pearl.

He planted all the immortal herbs harvested from the ruins to cultivate more immortal herbs, which would allow him to refine more soul solidifying pills in the future, providing greater assurance during his advancement.

After dealing with the immortal herbs, Fang Hong returned to the Immortal Cave’s secret chamber and began to meticulously tally all the gains from his trip to the ruins.

After a thorough count, the results were quite substantial: over fifty million Immortal Stones, and more than eight hundred Immortal Artifacts of varying quality.

Aside from these, other scattered items held little practical use for the current Fang Hong.

Looking at the idle Immortal Artifacts stacked in the corner, Fang Hong directly released his soul severing sword and nirvana divine thunder sword, allowing them to absorb this batch of idle Immortal Artifacts.

Subsequently, Fang Hong took out the demon soul banner, and with a thought, extracted the Ancient Demon soul that had been trapped inside earlier. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

The Ancient Demon had said that before invading the Immortal Realm, they would all leave strict soul restrictions to prevent the leakage of Family secrets, rendering soul Searching Arts completely useless.

Since soul Searching Arts were ineffective, Fang Hong changed his mind and decided to refine this Demon soul into his own Demon Servant.

Once the demonization was successful, this Demon soul would completely submit, and it would naturally reveal the secrets of the Ancient Demon Clan firsthand.

"Ahhh."

However, things did not go as planned; as soon as Fang Hong activated the demonization technique, an extremely shrill scream suddenly erupted.

Black Qi surged around the Demon soul as it was corroded by the power of demonization.

Within mere breaths, it transformed into specks of black light, directly annihilating into nothingness between heaven and earth, leaving not a trace behind.

Fang Hong gently shook his head, sighed deeply, and a clear look of disappointment appeared on his face.

The Ancient Demon Clan’s soul restrictions were indeed strange; even the demonization technique could directly trigger the restriction, causing the Demon soul to self-annihilate.

It was truly a pity about this Ancient Demon soul; it seemed that the secrets of the Ancient Demon Clan could only be slowly investigated later if the opportunity arose.

During the period that followed, Fang Hong completely immersed himself in quiet Cultivation within his Immortal Cave.

He stabilized his existing Cultivation while patiently waiting for the soul solidifying pill ingredients within the years pearl to mature.

At the same time, he also hoped that the life fruit tree would mature and bear life fruit soon.

Time quietly flowed by in the monotonous Cultivation, and half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Fang Hong had just returned from the central region of the Ancient Demon Continent.

To be more fully prepared for his advancement to Immortal King, he had frequently entered the central region over the past six months, hunting those Grand Unity Demonic Beasts and refining them into Immortal Pills.

This time, he had even slain five hundred in one go and refined five hundred more Immortal Pills.

The single Immortal King-level Immortal Pill he had obtained previously would likely be insufficient to support Fang Hong in completing his advancement.

After all, Fang Hong was different from other Cultivators, simultaneously Cultivating eight Laws.

The Immortal Qi supply required when advancing to Immortal King was extremely vast; he had to prepare more Immortal Pills to ensure foolproof success.

Moreover, during these past six months, the life fruit tree within the years pearl had finally borne mature life fruit.

As long as he refined the life fruit and comprehended the Law of Life within it, Fang Hong would then cultivate nine Laws simultaneously, and his strength would undoubtedly ascend to another level.

However, the amount of Immortal Qi required when simultaneously Cultivating nine Laws would be immeasurably vast.

This also made Fang Hong even more cautious, forcing him to accumulate as many Cultivation resources as possible.

Upon returning to his Immortal Cave, Fang Hong did not rest for a moment, immediately sitting cross-legged in the center of the secret chamber, taking out the life fruit, and beginning to refine it.

The life fruit was as white as snow, with a platinum luster flowing across its surface.

Fang Hong held the life fruit in his palm, circulated his cultivation technique, and began to fully refine the power of Law within it.

The Law of Life was exceptionally profound; Fang Hong focused his mind, meticulously peeling away the Law from the fruit and guiding them to merge into his meridians and Immortal Apertures.

Ten days passed in a flash.

With the aid of the life fruit, a brand new law meridian formed within Fang Hong’s body, which was precisely the law meridian of Life.

With the appearance of this Meridian, Fang Hong’s ten great Immortal Apertures once again expanded, and the Immortal Qi they contained became even more abundant.

At this moment, Fang Hong had successfully cultivated nine Laws simultaneously.

The basic Five Elements, Thunder, Darkness, Ice, plus the newly condensed Law of Life.

The nine great Laws complemented each other, making Fang Hong’s Immortal Power even more unfathomable.

After refining the life fruit, Fang Hong immediately left seclusion and headed straight for the Medicine Valley within the years pearl.

By this time, the soul solidifying pill ingredients planted there had fully matured, each plant possessing over a thousand years of Dao.

Fang Hong harvested all the medicinal ingredients, carefully screened and organized them, and then returned to the secret chamber; this time, he was going to make the final preparations for his advancement to Immortal King.